1907 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
113 
A THIEF-PROOF HENHOUSE. 
Thirty years a^o T was in the chicken 
business. Then 1 planted fruit trees, and 
while thev were growing I could attend 
to chickens and hogs. Now my fruit and 
hogs take about all my time. My better 
half has taken charge of the chickens. 
Twenty vears ago I built a henhouse of 
lumber 12x^0, and board floors lined in¬ 
side with tar.red paper. The floor got 
so bad that we took it out and used the 
earth. The rats would get in and take 
our young chickens, sometimes as high 
as 20 in one night. Thieves would break 
in and steal from eight to 60 chickens at 
a haul. The last raid was last Winter, 
when thev stole eight hens and the meat 
of three hogs. In this way we have lost 
over one hundred dollars in the 20 years. 
I studied all last Winter how to build a 
chicken and meat house that would be 
rat and thief proof. Lumber and shingles 
were, away out of sight owing to trusts 
and combines, so I figured on cement and 
iron, only using enough wood for the 
frame. After corn planting we staked 
off the building, 13x32 feet, dug trenches 
20 inches under ground and built the 
wall of gravel, sand and cement, 8 inches 
thick and 16 inches above ground. The 
inside partition walls are eight inches 
above the floor, six inches thick. The 
entire inside is cement, so no rats or even 
mice can enter, only where the chickens 
enter. The house stands east and west 
with a hall three feet wide on the north 
side, running the whole length of the 
building; a sleeping room 10x10 feet on 
the west end next our dwelling, a hatch¬ 
ing room 6x10 feet on the east side, and a 
feeding room in the middle. A door 
leads from the hall to the hatching room 
and one to the feeding room. A secret 
place was made to enter the roosting room 
to clean out; no outside door but the one 
into the hall. The sides of the house are 
six feet high. The whole building inside 
and out, including roof, ns of corrugated 
iron. The windows have one-half inch 
iron bars placed three inches apart, fas¬ 
tened inside. Sash is fastened outside 
with screws and can be removed in warm 
weather. We always keep straw or leaves 
in the feeding and roosting place, and so 
far it is the most satisfactory chicken 
house we ever had. When we clean out 
the house, it is clean; no wood floors to 
rot and harbor vermin. We never could 
keep board floors clean, and the ground 
floor has the same objections, with the 
addition of digging out six inches of 
soil and hauling it away, and hauling in 
fresh soil every season. Several years 
ago 1 put a cement floor in my fruit 
house and milk house, with a cement 
trough, also floors in three hog houses, 
and they have all been so satisfactory 
that hereafter all floors outside of the 
dwelling shall he cement. I hey do not 
cost me as much as wood, and are in¬ 
destructible. Our house cost within a 
fraction of $76; it will accommodate 75 
hens. In Summer our chickens roost out¬ 
doors. All our surplus of old hens and 
voung chicken's are sold off before Win¬ 
ter. We keep only such as we wish for 
laying and hatching. My meat house is 
thief-proof. J. H. F. 
Marion, Ind._ 
Lime and Sulphur for Mb.—I owned an 
•orchard that was sprayed thoroughly with 
this mixture by New York Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station. The orchard was badly 
.affected with scale, and was dying, and 
after (his first spraying late in the Spring 
1!»02 I had a line crop of apples and 
inever saw the trees look better. In 1903 no 
(spraying was done. In the Spring of 1904 
lit was sprayed again by same parties hut 
\with several different mixtures, and I had a 
poor crop of apples aiul the orchard lias been 
going back every year. I sold the place in 
1905. I am a firm believer in the old lime, 
sulphur and salt mixture, well boiled and 
thoroughly sprayed, and think this orchard 
would still lie in No. 1 shape if it had been 
sprayed with this every year since 1902. 
Geneva, N. Y. F. s. s. 
Agent: “This is the automobile you 
want. You never have to crawl under it 
to fix it.” Sparker: “You don't?" 
Agent: “No. If the slightest thing goes 
wrong with the mechanism, it instantly 
turns bottom-side up.”—Puck. 
(Where the Money Is 
IN 
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Poultry 
You have heard of the 
Big Profits in the Poul¬ 
try Business. If you 
would know how they are 
made, send two dimes for 
a copy of my book "Eggs, 
„ Broilers and Roasters. It 
gives the cost of production 
in all branches of the poultry 
business. It gives the market quotations 
week by week, averaged for three years. 
It shows when a chick hatched any week 
in the year could be marketed as a broiler 
or as a roasting chicken, and the profit it 
would make. It also tells of the profits 
of egg production, and how best to secure 
them. 
A copy of my Poultry Equipment Cata¬ 
log will tell you all about my Model In¬ 
cubators and Brooders. These machines 
are the greatest Hatchers and Artificial 
Mothers the world has seen. With these 
hatchers and rearers we raised over 
twenty thousand chickens the past season 
at the Model Farm- more than has ever 
been raised on any other farm in a season. 
We are raising 100,000 this season. Let 
me tell you about it. 
If you want to make money with poul¬ 
try I can help you. I can start you right. 
My Model Incubators and Brooders make 
an economical and efficient equipment. 
Their use, coupled with the instructions 
given in my literature precludes failure. 
Write me today. 
Learn About the Model Farm 
AND 
Our Co-operative Work 
I Can Vastly Increase Your Poultry Profits If You 
Will Allow Me an Opportunity 
I want to become acquainted with every 
poultry keeper in the United States East of 
Colorado who is now producing, or who wishes 
to produce, a case or more of eggs a week. 
The Model Poultry Company is handlingeggs, 
and will shortly be handling poultry as well. 
It is more than probable we can handle your 
eggs at abetter price than you’re now getting. 
I Know there are thousands of farmers and 
others who are not realizing what they 
should from their poultry. Not only will we 
handle your eggs at good prices, but we will 
f -ive you information that will help you toob- 
ain the greatest possible results from your 
flock. 
It is surprising how some apparently In¬ 
significant change in the care of poultry can 
speedily turn this branch of farming from “ a 
small payer” to the most profitable product 
on the whole farm. I have visited hundreds 
of poultry farms, large and small, and In about 
every Instance I have been able to make some 
suggestions that have effected a decided im¬ 
provement in the business. 
I believe I can extend this idea further and 
increase the profits of every poultry raiser if 
I can become acquainted with the conditions 
under which the poultry is raised and mar¬ 
keted. If you, Mr. Farmer, or the member of 
your family who looks after the poultry, will 
answer the following questions and mail the 
same to me, it will give me the information I 
need to analyze your individual requirements 
CHAS. A. CYPHERS, 3B7 Henry Street, Buffalo, N. 
and advise with you how to increase your 
profits. 
Give full Name, Town, County, State. How 
many layers do you keep? How many are 
pullets? Are they yarded? Are they of any 
particular breed? What breed have you a 
special liking for? Have you any market for 
your eggs and poultry other than the local 
town store? What are the highest and lowest 
prices you are now paid for eggs in the fall, 
In the winter, In the spring, aniL in the sum¬ 
mer? What prices are you paid for old fowl 
alive and dressed? How many did you raise 
last season? Have you accommodations to 
raise more? If you have not enough hens for 
a full case of eggs each week, is it possible to 
club with neighbors so as to make up a full 
case of strictly fresh eggs from yarded hens 
for delivery at loast once a week ? How many 
layers will you try to grow and keep next 
year? Do you use incubators and brooders 
or depend upon the old hens as mothers? 
Answer these questions carefully, as I will 
be best able to form an accurate judgment of 
what we can do for you by having a full un¬ 
derstanding of existing conditions. 
The opportunity for the farmer’s wife to 
make money out of eggs is unlimited. Aim to 
secure a flock of two or three hundred birds 
or more so that a full case of fresh eggs can 
be shipped every week. If you can do this I 
can assure you a profitable market. You can 
do it if you try. You try and I will help you. 
GOOD POULTRY FOODS 
» are necessary for big poultry profits. 
Harvey's Out A Haifa and Out Olover Hay, 
Poultry and Chick foods of all kinds are 
profit-makers. Send for Free samples 
and catalog of full line of poultry supplies. 
HARVEY SEED CO. 
721 Ellicott St., Huffalo, N. Y. 
POULTRY & PIGEON 
su 
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TAYLOR BROB., Dept. M, Camden, N. J 
BEST 
ON 
EARTH 
Eaton’s Life Saver 
Little Chick Food 
If your dealer cannot supply 
order direct from the 
Manufacturers 
R. D. EATON GRAIN & FEED CO., 
NORWICH, N. Y. 
_ _ Producer —keeps 
hens laying steadily all winter. 
1 ’rices 14c to 250 per lb. at dealers, 
/fust’s Egg Jtecord and valuable 
booklet free. Write today. 
WILLIAM RD8T & 80N8, 
[Dept. V, New Brunswick, H. J. 
THE PAYING HEN 
Is the laying hen. Feed her £reen cut bone and 
get twice the e^jjs, more fertile, better hatches* 
heavier fowls, earlier broilers and bigger profits. 
Mann’s Latest Model Bona Cutter 
cuts all bone, meat and gristle—never clogs. 
10 Days Free Trial. No moneyin advance. 
Return at our expense it not satisfied. Cet’lg free. 
F. W. MANN CO., Box t 6 Milford. Maos. 
Poultry Supplies 
We keep everything 
in the Poultry Line 
—Fencing, Feed, In¬ 
cubators, Live Stock, 
Brooders—anything— 
.t’s our business. Call or let us send 
you our Illustrated Catalog it’s free. 
Exoelsior Wire & Poultry Supply Co., 
Dept. HO, 26-28 Vesey 8t„ New York. 
rnn Oil c— choice Barred and Buff Hock 
lUn oMLL Cockerels; also Whito Wyandotte 
Cockerels and Buff Hock Hens. Brice reasonable, 
DR. S. C. MOYER, Dansdale. Ba. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5; Eggs 
for hatching, $1 for 10; $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
C. It. ZIMMER. It. I). 41. Weedsport. N. V. 
B UFF ROCKS—Winners of 150 premiums in three 
years. Solid in color, low combs, bay eyes. Utility. 
Stock and Eggs. Enquire of Kngiewood. Bristol,N.H. 
WHITE LEGHORN AND WHITE 
WYANDOTTE EGGS. 
GUARANTEED TO HATCH. Send for Catalogue 0. 
MAPLELING POULTRY YARDS, Pulaski, N. Y. 
|UFF ORPINGTONS— A few Cockerels for sale. 
• V. H. WOOSTEIi, Lysander. New York. 
L ‘uu 
T BRAHMAS, prize stock. A few good birds. 
C. GORDON, It. F. D. t,Sprakers. N. Y. 
■OR SALK—2 Bure White Leghorn Cockerels and 
25 young Hens. *1.50 apiece f. o. b. ch rs. 
•’ 8 UN 8 KT FARM,’’ Easton, Md. 
UTILITY! 
Laying ability first.standard require¬ 
ments second. LARGEST POULTRY 
PLANT IN AMERICA. S. C Wldte 
Leghorns, White Wyandottes, Barred 
Plymouth Rocks. Free Booklet. 
WOODLANDS FARM, Iona, New Jersey. 
GKKIDER’S FINK CATALOGUE 
1907 tells all about pure-bred poultry and 
describes and illustrates 60 varieties. 1 0 boauti- 
ful natural color plates. Gives reasonable prices 
for stock and ckk»: how to cure diseases, kill lice, 
looney. This valuable book only 10 cents, 
§ r ft. CREIDER, RHEEMS, PA. 
BONNIE BRAE 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Breeders of strictly high 
Class Single and Rose Comb 
White Leghorns. White 
Wyandottes, White and 
Barred Plymouth Rocks and Pekin Ducks. Sixty- 
five ribbons and two silver cups won at the last 
Poughkeepsie, Danbury Walden and Madison Square 
Garden Shows. Eggs for hatching now reaoy in uny 
quantity at$0 to $6 per KXJ, 11.50 and $2.00 per sitting. 
Eighty per cent, fertility guaranteeu. Send for free 
circular. Choice breeding cockerels and PekluDucks 
still on hand in any quantity. Largest plant in vicin¬ 
ity of NewYork City. Incubators 10,000 eggs capacity. 
R C, RHODE ISLAND REDS—Eggs $1.50 to 
• $5.00 per 15. Mating List sent on request; a few 
cockerels left $2 up. Sinclair Smith, 002 5th Street. 
Brooklyn, New York. Yards: Southold, New York. 
R 
OSE COM B Brown Leghorn Cockerels. Beststrain! 
Brice reasonable. I. C. Hawkins, Bullville, N. Y. 
B 
AKKKl), BUFF ANI) YVHITK PLYMOUTH 
HOCKS, White Wyandottes, White Minorc.as, 
White Leghorns, Mammoth Pekin Ducks; $2.00 each, 
$7 50 for trio, $12.90 for breeding pen. Catalogue free, 
EDWARD G. NOONAN, Proprietor East Donegal 
Poultry Yards, Marietta, Pennsylvania. 
__^ ^_ Be. per IB, $1.25 per 30; S. C. K. I. 
Red Kitgil Mc. P«rir., $1.50 periO; Mottled Ancona Ekk», $1.26 
per 15, $2.00 per 30; Clr. free. JOHN A. BOTH, quakertown, P». 
gVKK, Wh. Leghorns, jiggn 
F OR SALE—Eggs for Hatching from thorough¬ 
bred White Wyandottes. Prices $1.25 per 15; $5 
per 100. From fancy matings $2.50 per 15, $6.00 per 
50. AiUlress K, FRANKLIN KEAN,Stanley, N. Y. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM ‘ v, ne 1 wyo 1 iVk. 15, 
W. Ply moutli Rocks anil W. Holland Turkeys. 
M ammoth TOULOUSE Geese and W. Wyandotte 
ckls. for sale. E. Schleber, R. 2, Bucyrus, O. 
API, 14 VII,I, A POIII,TRY YARDS ran till order* from all varl- 
etlea, Andalusians, Km-ks, Wyandottes, Minorcan, Leghorns, 
Hainlnirtta, Spanlab, Anemias, .lavas. W. (S. Mosher,Sylvanie,Pa. 
M 
500 
IIAUKKl) HOCKS and K. O. Brown Leg¬ 
horns at Es price. Nelson Bros,, Grove City, Pa. 
W HITE II01, 1,A Nl> TURKEYS, $3.00 to $8,110 pair: Buff Orpington 
Chicken* $3.r>0: Berkshire Plies, :i to 4 months, $ii.lll) up; 
Collie Pops, $-1.00 up. W. A. I .OTHERS, Peru bark, Pa, 
E GGS for HATCHING-Giant Bronze Turkey, 
White Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red and Brown 
Leghorn. Write H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
PIE ESb ASS HOMER PIGEONS si™ 
Consult your interest before purchasing breeding 
stock by writing Win. O. Smith for prices and other 
particulars. VVM. O. SMITH, Germantown, N. Y. 
100 Egg Incubator $7.75 
THE MARILLA. 
The greatest incubator bargain ever offered. Thou¬ 
sands of Marilla incubators In use all giving entire 
satisfaction, All our Incubators are guaranteed to 
work perfectly and must be us represented or money 
refunded. Send for free catalog. 
SHOTWELL, TUCKER & McGINN, Skaneateles, N.Y. 
A Free Book About 
Incubators 
For your own sake don’tbuy an Incubator 
until you read our book. It is written by 
the man who knows most about incubating 
—a man who devoted 25 years to the prob¬ 
lem. It tells vital facts that you must know 
to buy wisely—factsyou would not think of. 
It tells of Racine Incubators and Brooders, 
of course, but whether you buy ours or 
another, the facts are i mportant. The man 
who writes the book made the Racine Incu- 
.bator. When you learn what he knows you 
will want his machine, we think. The book 
Is free—write today for it. Remember, We 
Pay the Freight. Address 
Racine Hatcher Co., Box 87 • Racine, Wig. 
Warehouses: Buffalo, Detroit, Kansas City, St. Paul. 
IDE LIT Y 
POULTRY FOODS 
Food “A” makes chicks strong,'! 
sturdy, vigorous; food “B” contains' 
egg making ingredients that heap up 
|the egg-Pasket; food “C” fattens fowls to 
get top-notch market prices. Feed tiiem. 
Catalog free. Agents wanted. 
I Incubator Co., lot 00. Jamiibur*, H. J. 
G CM incubators 
ELITI AND BROODERS 
Titno tested and provon guoceat; thousands lo 
use; sold dlroct to you at wholesale prloef. You 
got the maker’s guarantee and gave the middle- 
I man’s profits. The Hemovabl4 Chick Tra\p 
and Numery —a feature no otkor has—axplalned In 
oatalog. it’e/r«j. Writo for it today. 
Gem Incubator Co., Box424, Trotwood, 0. 
METAL MOTHERS 
Complete fireproof Hatching and 
Brooding plant for $7.60. 1 qt*. oil 
will hatch ami brood the chirk*. Our 
nest system Is the latest discovery. 
Pull line poultry supplies. Lowest 
prices. Free catalogue. Write today. 
CYCLE HATCHKK CO$, 
Box 212, Elm Ira, N. Y. 
. 00 ' 
Buy* the Best 
120-EGG 
Incubator 
freight prepaid, ever made. 
Double cases all over; best 
copper tank; hot water; 
self-regulating. Best 100 chick hot water 
Brooder $4.50. Incubator and Brooder ordered 
together $11.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. Our 
book, "Hatching Facts” tells all about them. 
Mailed free. Write today. 
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Write today for The Autobiography 
of a Heu and the Victor Book—the 
whole story from the chick ia the 
egg to how to make hens lay. All 
about Incubators for expert and 
beginner. Knowledge you ought 
to have if you are thinking of buy* 
ing oue. VICTOR machines are 
practical and well made, econoini* 
cal iu operation and always pro* 
duce the best results. Don't 
waste your time, eggs and oil in 
a poor machine. Letustellyou 
how to begin right. Our 40 year* 
experience is at your service in 
these books. Let us send them 
to you and see. Write us for 
them today. Geo. Ertel Co. 
Established 1867. Qalncy, Ill 
STAR 
INCUBATORS 
& BROODERS 
Guaranteed to suit or no sale. 
Big hatches ami broods prove 
their money - making merits. 
Write for now FREE catalog. 
STAR INCUBATOR CO., 626 
Church St„ Bound Brook, N. J. 
' Send for free | 
Catalogue. 
Hatch Chickens by 
Steam with the 
EXCELSIOR INCUBATOR 
Or WOODEN HEN 
Simple, perfect, self-regulating. 
Hatch evjpry fertile egg. Lowest 
priued first-class hatchers made. 
l>KO. U. STAHL, Uulnoy, 111. 
240-EGG $ 
ncubator 
120 Eaa si*«, *o,oo 
GO Egg *lts, *7.50 
Brooders equally low. Not cheap 
machines but the famous" ld*al" 
—guaranteed to l>e the surest and easiest ever nude, 
Wh, nut a.,, from $6 to *10? U.t our bis me >*s«, tlluiirs'fd 
jouur, bunk j >w> MU , er c#ft Box 
97, Freeport, III. 
EARLY CHIGKS PAY BIG 
Hatohed In January, Feb¬ 
ruary ami March, they make 
ig profits. Hatch them in a 
_, MANTA INCUBATOH 
T lloat uniform, case tight, 
ventilation gives strong 
chicks, regulator relialde. Ton 
minutes work daily. New cata¬ 
log free. Bsnta-Bsnder Mfg. Co Dept. 48.Ugonlbf.lnd. 
40, 60 or 90 Days’ Trial on 
Old Trusty^* 
Try chicken raising on the John¬ 
son plan. My people are an en¬ 
thusiastic lot. We get the results. 
2-year guarantee. Low price. Old 
Trusty Catalogue tell* the whole 
story—It’s FREE—write for it today, 
*M. M. JOHNSON CO.. CLAY CENTER, NEB. 
